The ground beneath the United States is never truly still. S. could experience potentially damaging earthquakes and intense ...

For hundreds of Bay Area residents, plate tectonics isn't abstract.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers hoping to unravel the dance of earthquake movement in North America’s West Coast discovered a disturbing fact: Two of the world’s largest ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive for more than 40 million years, but new research suggests that earthquakes occurred in the zone ...

There's a sleeping fault line that runs along the border between Canada and Alaska. The line has been dormant for millions of years as best scientists can tell. But new research suggests it could be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the best places to visualize the geological features known as the Balcones Escarpment and Balcones Fault is Mount Bonnell.

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...

Research led by the University of Victoria discovered that the Tintina Fault in the Klondike region of Yukon has the potential to produce earthquakes as large as magnitude 7.5, a previously ...

HOLLYWOOD (KABC) -- A new finalized version of a California earthquake map shows an active fault line running through Hollywood, raising questions about the Millennium Hollywood development project.